﻿<cffunction name="stripNonAlphanum" access="public" hint="replace non alpha numeric characters to empty char">
	
	<cfargument name="str" default="" required="true">
	<cfargument name="scope" default="ALL" required="false">
	  
	<cfreturn REReplaceNoCase(arguments.str, "\W", "", arguments.scope)>
	
</cffunction>